The duo project from guitarist James Blackshaw and lutenist Jozef Van Wissem returns for a second long-player. Curiously, The Wolf Also Shall Dwell With The Lamb is mixed in mono, meaning that the two performers blur into one another, meaning that considerable passages of the album sound like they're derived from a single, very strange stringed-instrument. There are harp-like natural harmonics running through the opening track, which sets its airy lightness against an entirely misleading title ('The Sun Tears Itself From The Heavens And Comes Crashing Down Upon The Muktitude'). The album only really marks out its intentions with the title track - a cascade of flurried notes and beautiful, symbiotic harmony, leading into the more obviously baroque intervals of 'Into The Dust Of The Earth' (which is probably the most obviously lute-compatible, archaic sounding duet here). Blackshaw and Van Wissem save the best for last with the interlocking phrases and 16th century string-bending of 'I Am A Flower Of Sharon And A Rose In The Valley' whose downbeat, highly expressive meanderings probably represent the closest the lute will ever come to playing the blues. Excellent. ~ from boomkat
Credits:Artwork By [Drawings] - Wouter Vanhaelemeesch
Artwork By [Graphic Design] - Levi Seeldraeyers , Marijke Loozen
Composed By - James Blackshaw , Jozef Van Wissem
Guitar [12 String Guild In Dadead Tuning] - James Blackshaw
Lute [13 Course Baroque In D Minor Tuning Bottleneck] - Jozef Van Wissem
Photography - Hans Van Der Linden
Producer - Jozef Van Wissem
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